This Lotus Position!

Yesterday and today have been great, except I watched this new movie, Beautiful Boy, on Amazon this afternoon and I loved it. Watching Beautiful Boy was a real eye-opener for me,  but it depressed me until I talked to our dear friends Kris & Jim. And by the time I adios-ed Kris & The Mineral Man—I was no longer depressed and I was back to laughing.

But back to the movie, I must say that Steve Carrell's acting was incredibly great along with the other actors. The story and plot were fabulous, but the subject matter—drug addiction was so scary. I think everyone should watch this movie, because it is a real eye-opener about drug addiction/abuse and it needed to be addressed and become a priority before it kills and destroys so many families.

Now I am off my soapbox. (I know you're saying, "Thank goodness for that.")

This morning, I slept in and it was so wonderful to wake up with all of our dogs snuggling next to me. I was so warm and cozy sleeping with them that when I woke up I stayed in bed with them for over twenty minutes, before doing my habit—"Today is going to be a great day!" Loud clap and then jumped off the bed.

Early this afternoon, after cooking us lunch and cleaning up the kitchen I walked 4 Fast Miles with Leslie Sansone, while Roy and Henry snored on the couch. And while secretly Little Debbie and Big Al(ice) happily tore up and shredded an old throw blanket, in the bedroom.

After I walked the four miles with Leslie, I was so thrilled with myself that I had exercised—I ate the last slice of my homemade cake that I had made the other day. And I washed it down with a glass half-full of 2% milk.

Then of course I felt guilty for indulging myself, but I quickly got over it. But then seeing the sad, upside down smile on Tony's face when he looked into the refrigerator and discovered the cake was history and that was almost too much for me to bear.

So, to bring back some peace and harmony into my life, I decided to try to meditate, again. You see, yesterday afternoon my dear friend, in Costa Rica, sent me this great link to this app for meditation for beginners.

Last night I tried meditating for the very first time and it was weird and pretty cool at the same time and it sort of freaked out our dogs—especially Little Debbie.

I think the reason it freaked her out was I streamed the meditation session for beginners, from my iPad to my awesome harmon/kardon blue-tooth speaker, and it was pretty loud, with this guru's deep voice chanting.

And I probably made her more nervous, because I was sitting on the floor, in front of the wood burning stove, trying to sit in this lotus-position with my palms turned face up and my head tilted upward with my eyes closed—and repeating, after him, these strange sounds.

So all that I can figure is Little Debbie must have thought that I was growling at her or that I was temporarily possessed. Anyway, I only tried to meditate for about 15 minutes. And I did it again today after Tony promised me that he would stay outside with our dogs until I had finished meditating.

And speaking of finishing, I guess that is about all for tonight. Life is good—knock-on-wood.

Y'all have a great evening and keep on laughing!